.gitignore

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/renpy
-# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=renpy
-
-### Renpy ###
-# Don't track content of these folders #
-########################################
-cache/
-saves/
-
-
-# Compiled source #
-###################
-*.com
-*.class
-*.dll
-*.exe
-*.o
-*.so
-
-*.rpyc
-*.rpymc
-
-
-# The log file and other misc things #
-######################################
-log.txt
-errors.txt
-traceback.txt
-files.txt
-
-# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/renpy

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "files.exclude": {
-        "**/*.rpyc": true,
-        "**/*.rpa": true,
-        "**/*.rpymc": true,
-        "**/cache/": true
-    }
-}

cache/shaders.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+renpy.alpha renpy.texture
+renpy.dissolve renpy.dissolve
+renpy.ftl
+renpy.alpha renpy.geometry renpy.texture
+renpy.geometry renpy.texture
+renpy.geometry renpy.solid
+renpy.dissolve renpy.geometry
+renpy.texture
+renpy.solid

options.rpy

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ define gui.show_name = False
 
 ## The version of the game.
 
-define config.version = "1.0 beta"
+define config.version = "1.0"
 
 
 ## Text that is placed on the game's about screen. Place the text between the

script.rpy

@@ -113,99 +113,164 @@ label prologue:
 
     nvlnarrator "My eyes widen suddenly, waking me as if I was dreaming, except my body doesn't have the energy to bolt up in shock.{w} The rest of my senses lag behind, so at first I'm not sure what has me wide
     awake so late at night."
+
     play sound heartbeat_single
+
     nvlnarrator "Soon I feel my head starting to pound.{w} At first it's only unpleasant, but after a short moment it feels like someone's holding a drill right to the center of my forehead."
+
     play sound heartbeat_single
     scene ceiling_red with vpunch
+
     nvlnarrator "My vision turns blood red.{w} The world becomes dizzying... I hold onto my bed like I'm bound to be thrown around by gravity..."
+    
     nvlnarrator "Logically, I know it's just my body acting up, probably some kind of sickness, but when the whole world's twisting around me, all coated in red, I can't help but wonder if the world itself is
     writhing in pain, about to meet its end."
+
     play ambient heartbeat_strong
+
     nvlnarrator "Every second the feelings bathing my body become harder and harder to ignore.{w} The pain, once localized right at the center of my forehead, now feels more like a saw going through my head.{w}
     Is my brain splitting in half?"
+
     scene black with dissolve
+
     nvlnarrator "I turn, clutching my pillow to the sides of my head."
 
     nvl clear
-
     scene cg_meeting_empty with dissolve
+
     nvlnarrator "Turned to the side like this, my negligence stares back at me in full display by way of the sheer state of disrepair I've left every inch of my apartment in.{w} But even now I can't bring myself to
     care. I get overwhelmed enough just making sure I'm home safe from work already..." 
+    
     nvlnarrator "For a dead-end like me, a living situation like this is nothing short of suitable, though if whatever is troubling my body now happens to take my life, I'll definitely have wished to die with my
     sights set on something a bit more beautiful."
+
     scene cg_meeting_empty with dissolve
     stop ambient fadeout 1.0
     $renpy.pause(0.5)
+    
     nvlnarrator "Time keeps passing.{w} The pain doesn't dull, but my awareness does.{w} After all, how long has it been since I've been staring out that window?"
+
     nvlnarrator "The unchanging nature of these walls starts messing with me...{w} Every once in a while I think I see something in the corner of my eyes, a bug, or sometimes something gross and fleshy, writhing
     and unreal.{w} A desperate fleeting thought makes me wonder if there's a monster hiding somewhere inside, causing me to be sick..."
+
     nvlnarrator "... but I think I'm much too boring to be the target of anything like that.{w} What fun is there in watching your target hide under her covers and her pillow until the pain ends?"
+
     nvl hide Dissolve(0.5)
     scene cg_meeting_empty with dissolve
     $renpy.pause(0.5)
+
     advnarratorslow "My perception of time continues, warped as it was."
+    
     advnarratorslow "The wall writhes, every second more violent, in the corner of my eyes."
+
     advnarratorslow "There's a strange feeling to it..." 
+
     advnarratorslow "I've become desensitized to my own body, all while inhabiting it and feeling its pain."
+    
     advnarratorslow "It feels like being encased in a cocoon."
+
     advnarratorslow "But it's just when I think I'm completely ready to dissociate that I see it."
 
     scene cg_meeting_peek with dissolve
     play music t1 fadein 1.0
     $renpy.pause(1)
+
     null "...... {w}Hello? {w}May I come in...?"
+
     advnarratorslow "At that point, I need to put in effort to regain perfect motor control."
+
     advnarratorslow "It takes me a second to ask her."
+
     advnarratorslow "At first, nothing comes out..."
+
     advnarratorslow "And then a vague, pained whimper."
+
     advnarratorslow "She looks concerned."
+
     null "Aha... {w}You're really not okay, huuh?"
+
     advnarratorslow "Finally, the words come out right."
+
     irida "Wー{w} Who are you... ?"
+
     null "You hesitated...{w} you wanted to ask 'what are you' instead, didn't you?"
+
     irida "Well..."
+
     scene cg_meeting_greet with dissolve
     $renpy.pause(2)
+
     advnarratorslow "Only now that she stands so clear in front of me that I stop to think about her appearance."
+
     advnarratorslow "I couldn't tell if this girl really was glowing, or if it could be just my imagination."
+
     advnarratorslow "The light radiating from her, along with her sudden emergence, gave her a very otherworldly presence."
+
     advnarratorslow "In that moment, there was something I found beautiful about it."
+
     null "Really, I don't know either!"
+
     null "But all I feel is that I'm happy to meet you..."
+
     null "And that somehow...{w} hm,{w} how should I put it?"
+
     advnarratorslow "Before she spoke, I could already tell what she meant."
+
     advnarratorslow "That even with this distance, the physical distance, between me and her..."
+
     advnarratorslow "It felt somehow like we were within each other."
+
     advnarratorslow "Now somehow aware of how quickly I came to understand, she nods and smiles at me."
+
     null "It seems crazy, right?{w} Well, I think I must be inside you or something..."
+
     advnarratorslow "With this in mind, it's hard not to start connecting the dots."
+
     advnarratorslow "The pain, starting from my forehead."
+
     advnarratorslow "This girl's sudden appearance."
+
     advnarratorslow "The weird, grotesque details all over her..."
+    
     advnarratorslow "Something must've entered my brain, right?"
+
     advnarratorslow "She must be the representation of some foreign thing in my brain..."
+
     irida "You're a parasite..."
+
     null "Hmm..."
+
     null "I guess that would kinda make sense, wouldn't it?"
+
     null "I guess that's what I am then!{w} A parasite..."
+
     null "Well...{w}If we're stuck like this, I hope we can still get along..."
+
     irida "......." 
+
     stop music fadeout 1.5
     scene black with Fade(2, 1, 0)
+    
     extend " Parasite..."
 
 label act1_part1:
     nvl clear
+
     play ambient fanloop fadein 0.5
     scene black with Fade(0, 2, 0)
 
     nvl show Dissolve(0.5)
     nvlnarrator "I should've known from that moment that living like this would destroy my life."
+
     nvlnarrator "After all, it should've been obvious from her ghostly appearance.{w} She's a monster.{w} She's something that exists to haunt."
+
     play sound finger_snap volume 1.5
     scene ceiling with Fade(0, 0, 0.3)
+
     extend " Well, I had no choice, so I let this foreign presence haunt me for the rest of time."
+
     nvlnarrator "It's been more than a year now...{w} I can't remember the exact day. Time became hard to keep track of alongside everything else."
+
     nvlnarrator "The trash in the house just kept piling up worse and worse, as did everything else.{w} Things were always hard for me, sure, but never impossible.{w} Lately even the bare minimum has been
     impossible.{w} I'm living on borrowed time..."
     nvl hide Dissolve(0.2)
@@ -213,142 +278,248 @@ label act1_part1:
     null "Iridaaaa..." 
 
     nvl clear
-
     show null boast sohappy at right with dissolve
+    
     extend " Body needs food!!!!!"
+
     advnarrator "I feel that thing's finger poking my cheek."
+
     advnarrator "I know she's not physically there, but I still feel her..."
+
     advnarrator "To think someone like this could show herself to me anytime she feels like it."
+
     advnarrator "What a bother..."
+
     irida "You're so annoying.{w} Just give me a second..."
+
     show null boast annoyed at bouncetransition
+
     null "Give you a second?!{w} Nutrition is serious business, you know?{w} Take that body of ours seriously or you'll lose it!!"
+
     irida "Lose it, huh..."
+
     advnarrator "I exhale a bit...{w} I lost it the instant you became a part of it, didn't I?"
+
     show null boast pout at bouncetransition
+
     null ".{w}.{w}.{w} I hear you."
+
     irida "Whoops."
+
     hide null with dissolve
+
     nvl show Dissolve(0.5)
     nvlnarrator "Still, I suppose she's right.{w} Today was the day I set aside in my head to sign my severance agreement.{w} I can't be wasting too much time."
+
     nvlnarrator "Every time I think about it, it bothers me.{w} Just what year are we in that I have to haul my ass to an office to sign this kind of thing?{w} What reason could there even be to do something so
     inconvenient?"
+
     nvlnarrator "I guess the corporate ladder thrives off inconveniencing the people it leeches from.{w} Tire me out, lay me off, and then finally make it so I can't be bothered to get my dues, right?"
+
     nvlnarrator "Even at a time where things are at their most comfortable, these kinds of exploiters will find problems to create for people.{w} Inconvenience everyone, then sell them ways to stay stagnant and
     unflinching, hardly ever mustering up a thought of their own."
-    nvlnarrator "...{w} The world is doomed.{w} I want to be taken away by catastrophe already."
-    nvlnarrator "But I might as well live while I'm here."
-    scene black with dissolve
 
+    nvlnarrator "...{w} The world is doomed.{w} I want to be taken away by catastrophe already."
+
+    nvlnarrator "But I might as well live while I'm here."
+
+    scene black with dissolve
     nvl clear
 
     nvlnarrator "Shrugging NULL off, I get up, making my way through the living room to get to the kitchen.{w} Every step I take must be careful, lest I step on a trash bag or any other sort of
     bullshit thrown about."
+
     stop ambient fadeout 10
+
     nvlnarrator "Most common are the plastic cups all around, all of them still with a few drops of sweet drinks clinging to their rims.{w} Some were tucked inside various takeout and plastic bags, which were also
     thrown about in ample amounts."
+
     nvlnarrator "Everything that could be piled up is piled up.{w} There are a few pockets of trash that might as well be makeshift pillars.{w} Even in the rim of my own bed sits a pillar of filth."
+
     scene kitchen with dissolve
+
     nvlnarrator "I used to tell myself the day would come where I'd regain my energy and bring it all back the way it should be, but by now I've accepted it...{w} I will die taking in these sights, and smelling this
     very stale moldy air."
 
     nvl clear
 
     nvlnarrator "I bend down and open a cupboard filled to the brim with canned food, immediately annoying NULL."
+
     nvlnarrator "At some point I stopped having it in me to cook every day,{w} and after that stopped having the energy to go out to eat.{w} So one day I just went and got myself a big stockpile of these
     cheap pieces of shit.{w} I think that was the last time I ever left the house."
+
     nvlnarrator "Well, NULL is a picky and annoying brat so it doesn't shock me how quickly she's become sick of eating canned food.{w} I suppose I would be too, if my survival instincts weren't so fried now."
     nvl hide Dissolve(0.1)
 
     show null boast annoyed with dissolve
-    null "Are you fucking serious?!"
-    hide null boast with dissolve
-    nvl clear
-    advnarrator "With a pissed off look, Null disappears from my view."
-    scene black with dissolve
-    advnarrator "I start to feel something wet and writhing wrapping itself around my arms."
-    advnarrator "No...{w} Not this...{w} Anything but this."
-    advnarrator "The can I was holding is unceremoniously dropped onto the floor,"
-    # impact sound
-    extend " making a loud metallic sound upon impact."
-    advnarrator "Looking down at my hands, I can see..."
 
-    scene cg_takeover_hands with dissolve
+    null "Are you fucking serious?!"
-    advnarrator "Entrails coil around both my arms, wrapped tightly into helixes."
+
-    advnarrator "I know well by now they're just in my mind, but still...{w} I feel them."
+    hide null boast with dissolve
-    advnarrator "They're disgusting, alive, the feeling is all too convincing, it's so wet, and it won't stop pulsating."
+
-    advnarrator "I feel it all shifting up and down, sometimes wrapping tighter, eventually letting go."
+    nvl clear
-    advnarrator "It grosses me out like nothing else in the world..."
+
-    advnarrator "If I focus on it much longer, I'll get dizzy and pass out."
+    advnarrator "With a pissed off look, Null disappears from my view."
-    advnarrator "I don't want this,{w} I don't want this,{w} I never wanted this..."
+
-    irida "Please...{w} don't..."
-    advnarrator "An annoying voice echoes in my mind."
-    null "But how could I not?{w} If you're not gonna take care of us, it's all up to me, isn't it?!"
-    advnarrator "My connection to my body becomes fuzzy."
     scene black with dissolve
+
+    advnarrator "I start to feel something wet and writhing wrapping itself around my arms."
+
+    advnarrator "No...{w} Not this...{w} Anything but this."
+
+    advnarrator "The can I was holding is unceremoniously dropped onto the floor,"
+    
+    extend " making a loud metallic sound upon impact."
+
+    advnarrator "Looking down at my hands, I can see..."
+    
+    scene cg_takeover_hands with dissolve
+
+    advnarrator "Entrails coil around both my arms, wrapped tightly into helixes."
+
+    advnarrator "I know well by now they're just in my mind, but still...{w} I feel them."
+
+    advnarrator "They're disgusting, alive, the feeling is all too convincing, it's so wet, and it won't stop pulsating."
+
+    advnarrator "I feel it all shifting up and down, sometimes wrapping tighter, eventually letting go."
+
+    advnarrator "It grosses me out like nothing else in the world..."
+
+    advnarrator "If I focus on it much longer, I'll get dizzy and pass out."
+
+    advnarrator "I don't want this,{w} I don't want this,{w} I never wanted this..."
+
+    irida "Please...{w} don't..."
+
+    advnarrator "An annoying voice echoes in my mind."
+
+    null "But how could I not?{w} If you're not gonna take care of us, it's all up to me, isn't it?!"
+
+    advnarrator "My connection to my body becomes fuzzy."
+
+    scene black with dissolve
+
     advnarrator "I've been cut off.{w} I lost control..."
+
     null "Hmhmmm..."
+
     advnarrator "Null inspects herself all around, adjusting to our body."
+
     advnarrator "She wiggles our fingers and closes our hands."
+
     advnarrator "And then, satisfied, she opens the fridge, pouncing on it like a predator."
+
     advnarrator "The contents of the fridge bounce around noisily, though there isn't much inside anymore beyond drinks and frozen goods."
+
     advnarrator "It's an irritating cacophony, but without controlling my own body I can't cover my ears.{w} I can't even wince."
+
     advnarrator "She flings the door to the freezer open, once again making the fridge sing its symphony."
+
     null "There it is!{w} My favorite..."
+
     show irida stiff shock at left with dissolve
+
     irida "D-{w} Do not, make us eat that...{w} please..."
+
     show null boast creep at right with dissolve
+
     null "But just think about all the protein we're lacking!!{w} You'll thank me later, I know it!!!"
+
     hide irida stiff
     hide null boast
     with dissolve
+
     advnarrator "Roughly, without a hint of hesitation, Null takes a bag and tears at it with our nails."
+
     advnarrator "Inside, protected only by a thin plastic that will soon be torn apart, are a few cuts of uncooked steak."
+
     advnarrator "Despite not being in control I feel all that she does as if it happened to me, although faintly."
+
     advnarrator "The plastic keeps getting caught on our fingertips, but she seems not to mind the feeling, not letting it stop her from tearing."
+
     advnarrator "But even from the outside looking in I can feel it hurting."
+
     advnarrator "I sit on the outside, unable to stop her from hurting me, forced to watch and, at most, powerlessly beg."
+
     advnarrator "And the worst has yet to come."
+
     null "Ahaha, here it is..."
+
     advnarrator "Having perforated a decent hole onto the plastic, Null finally pulls one of the cuts of meat out of the bag."
+
     null "Aahh, I've wanted some good food for so long..."
+
     show irida stiff shock at right with dissolve
+
     irida "Please, if you r-{w} really want to take over..."
+
     show irida stiff nervous at bouncetransition
+
     irida "You could at least take the time to cook it, right?"
+
     null "Hmmm...{w} oh, but don't you see how good it looks already?{w} Who has the time, right?"
+
     show irida stiff megashock
+
     irida "Please, waitー{nw}"
+
     hide irida with dissolve
+
     advnarrator "Not paying any mind to what I say, Null sinks our teeth into the uncooked meat."
+
     advnarrator "Like I said, I feel it all as if I was still in the pilot's seat."
+
     advnarrator "It's disgusting..."
+
     advnarrator "It's too soft, I feel it resisting under my teeth, forcing them back."
+
     advnarrator "But Null pulls with force, making the resisting pullback from the uncooked chunk even fiercer."
+
     advnarrator "I can feel bits tearing apart while others remain, strung thin from Null's bite."
+
     advnarrator "Fibers catch on my teeth, not completely unlike the plastic getting stuck on our fingers."
+
     advnarrator "Her bite is fierce, so it's only natural some would get caught in between."
+
     advnarrator "I feel our teeth sinking down to the point our gums touch the meat..."
+
     advnarrator "And I see her pulling, stretching the meat thin."
+
     advnarrator "I hate meat...{w} I hate anything alive..."
+
     advnarrator "How disgusting, to think I'm made of things like this."
+
     advnarrator "Null always reminds me of that fact, and it makes me want to die."
+
     null "Rhhggh..."
+
     advnarrator "She snarls, pulling a large chunk apart, barely chewing before forcing it down our throats with a swallow."
+
     advnarrator "When she pulls like that, it feels like our teeth are mere moments from being torn off our mouths."
+
     advnarrator "I want to cower in pain and scream but I can't do a single thing now."
+
     advnarrator "I wouldn't wish this on anyone..."
 
     scene kitchenfloor with Fade(0, 0.5, 2)
+
     advnarrator "In the end, she only manages to swallow three chunks of raw beef."
+
     advnarrator "I feel countless beads of sweat sticking to our skin, but still I can't tell if she got tired or simply satisfied."
+
     advnarrator "That girl wouldn't let something like physical fatigue get in her way."
+
     advnarrator "...{w} Yeah, I guess she would only stop if she was satisfied after all."
+
     show null boast sohappy at right with dissolve
     nvl clear
+
     null "There!!{w} That should be plenty of nutrients for the day, right?"
+
     show null boast surprise at bouncetransition
+
     null "... Oh, that doesn't feel good."
+
     irida "Huh?"
 
     # thunk sfx w pause
@@ -356,78 +527,117 @@ label act1_part1:
 
     nvl show Dissolve(0.5)
     nvlnarrator "Suddenly thrust back into my body, I fall to my knees."
+
     hide null boast with dissolve
+    
     extend " At first I'm only disoriented, but the impact of my knees hitting the floor leaves me aware again."
+
     nvlnarrator "I glance down.{w} I glance down because my stomach feels heavy, and the room feels like it's shaking.{w} There's a burning, not quite in my throat, but threatening to reach it, inching closer by the
     second, making it feel hard to breathe."
+
     nvlnarrator "I sweat, even more than I already was, pulling as much air as I can with each loud breath I take.{w} I'd love to cuss out Null right now, more than anything I'd love to tell her off, but I can't
     focus on anything but this increasing choking feeling."
+
     play sound gag2
+
     nvlnarrator "Unnatural guttural hurls leave my mouth.{w} My body becomes desperate to purge the poison it'd just been fed, no matter the cost.{w} I barely get any time to breathe between the violent hurling,
     and both my breathing and my gagging help in inching the nasty mass in my throat further and further up."
+
     nvlnarrator "Without any goal in mind I flail my arms around, grasping at the floor.{w} I go back and forth between cupping my hands around my neck and holding onto the floor,{w} Each time realizing anything I
     could do now is fruitless, but still responding to the natural impulse that tells me to do something quick."
+
     nvlnarrator "Well, naturally, all I ever had to do was wait for the bile to leave my mouth."
 
     nvl clear
-
     play sound vom
     pause 1
+
     nvlnarrator "And so it did..."
+
     nvlnarrator "It's been a while now since I'd last fed myself properly, so what goes through my throat is mostly acid.{w} Of course, that means my throat burns like fucking hell, and it probably will for a
     while after this."
+
     nvl hide Dissolve(0.5)
 
     advnarrator "I don't have it in me to prop myself up anymore."
+
     advnarrator "My back hurts from arching down while I hurled.{w} Even my arms feel sore."
+
     null "Ohh, that's disgusting!"
+
     scene black with Fade(1, 1, 0)
+
     advnarrator "A cruel, unnecessary taunt is the last thing I hear before I crumple onto the floor."
+
     scene cg_vomit with Fade(0,0,1)
+
     advnarrator "I feel a wetness on my cheek..."
+
     advnarrator "I think I definitely laid on it."
+
     advnarrator "..."
+
     advnarrator "I fail to hold back another gag."
+
     advnarrator "And in bringing my arms forward to cover my mouth, I realize how sickly pale I am right now."
+
     null "Irida, you're so gross... why'd you go and throw up all over the kitchen?"
+
     null "Was all the filth not enough for you already?"
+
     null "Eeeewww... Ahahahaha!!"
     nvl clear
+
     scene black with Fade(1.5, 1, 0)
+
     irida "Hhhnn......"
 
     nvl show Dissolve(0.2)
     nvlnarrator "I close my eyes, pretending not to care about the present nastiness.{w} I just need to rest...{w} Forget everything, and just rest."
+
     nvlnarrator "......" 
+
     scene bathroom with Fade(0, 0.5, 1)
+    
     extend " The first thing I do when I get up is head to the bathroom, still needing to step carefully through the apartment, and wipe my face.{w} I don't bother with the puddle on the floor...{w}
     I don't have it in me right now."
+
     nvlnarrator "Desperate to get my throat to stop burning, I also sip some of the sink water.{w} It doesn't really help.{w} Not sure what I was expecting?"
+
     nvlnarrator "I also give a halfhearted attempt to brush my teeth.{w} It's good to do after throwing up......{w} S,{w} So I've heard."
-    nvlnarrator "It's hard not to stare at the mirror after taking care of myself.{w} I was always one to let my eyes linger a bit, stare back at the me in the mirror."
+
+    nvlnarrator "Naturally, it's hard not to do all that and stare at the mirror a bit.{w} I was always one to let my eyes linger a bit, stare back at the me in the mirror."
 
     nvl clear
 
     nvlnarrator "It never felt normal, not exactly, but needless to say it's only gotten weirder to see myself, even putting aside my body's state of disrepair.{w} As NULL has been alongside me, the look in my
     eyes has only changed more."
+
     nvlnarrator "I'm sure the same questions would come up in anyone's mind...{w} really, it makes me kind of self-aware to give them any space in my brain...{w} but how would someone in this position not start to
     question where their self begins and ends?"
+
     nvlnarrator "When I see that parasite standing right beside me in the mirror, is it an extension of me?{w} If this burden only I can carry a part of me, could that be said of anyone?"
+
     nvlnarrator "I guess it's hard to compare when most other people's problems have the decency not to talk back to them.{w} And it's hard to imagine something so evil coming out of me...{w} What could I have done
     to deserve something like that?"
 
     nvl clear
 
     nvlnarrator "I was never good, not really.{w} It's always been hard to sit with myself.{w} I've always had some kind of bitterness aimed at whoever would be unlucky enough to get caught up in my life..."
+
     nvlnarrator "But still, I never let that define me, right?{w} Sure, I could be withdrawn at times, hide myself, I never let that get in the way of the lives of others.{w} And that should be enough,
     right?{w} I've always been sure that's just how it is."
 
     nvl clear
 
     nvlnarrator "Haaaah..."
+
     nvlnarrator "I breathe in heavily...{w} I gotta get myself ready.{w} I'm usually one to delay things until I can no longer, but I'll take any money I can get...{w} else I'll fizzle out much too soon."
+
     nvlnarrator "I lifelessly splash water on my face."
+    
     nvlnarrator "The feeling used to upset me, so I got used to only splashing enough to rub the dirt off my eyes, usually.{w} I don't think it'd bother me so much nowadays though."
+
     nvlnarrator "Turning to both my sides, I wonder what I should do with the uncontrollable mess my hair has become.{w} Better not to overthink it, or I'll overwhelm myself...{w} I'll just try tying it like
     I did back then."
 
@@ -440,71 +650,131 @@ label act1_part1:
     nvl clear
 
     advnarrator "Breathing out, I sit in bed, shifting some trash aside to look for half-decent clothing." 
+    
     advnarrator "I feel my heart racing as it often does in these situations, increasingly noticeable the closer I get to actually heading out the door."
+
     irida "Hhh..."
+
     advnarrator "I whine, struggling to fit into some tights."
+
     show irida stiff closed outside at center with dissolve
+
     pause 0.5
+
     advnarrator "Guess I'm all dressed up now."
+
     show null boast smugopen at right with dissolve
+
     null "It's shocking to see you dressed like a person again, for once..."
+
     null "Your looks are kinda..."
+
     show null boast thinking at bouncetransition
+    
     extend " wasted,{w} on a loser like you, aren't they?"
+
     show null boast creep at bouncetransition
+
     null "You should get your act together already."
+
     show irida stiff stare with dissolve
+
     irida "You rag on every part of me, but never my appearance, huh?" 
+
     show irida stiff side at bouncetransition
+    
     extend " That's kinda creepy..."
+
     show null boast pissed at bouncetransition
+
     null "Creepy?!{w} What's gotten into you!!!!!!!!!!!"
+
     show null boast blush at bouncetransition
+
     null "Your body's my body too, right?{w} It wouldn't make sense for me to be mean about it, right?!"
+
     show null boast pout at bouncetransition
+
     null "W, Weirdo..."
+
     advnarrator "I refuse to engage with her any further, "
+
     show irida stiff closed at bouncetransition
+    
     extend "steel myself,"
+
     hide irida stiff with dissolve
+    
     extend  " and head towards the door."
+
     scene black with Fade(1.5, .5, 0)
 
     nvl show Dissolve(0.5)
+
     nvlnarrator "My hands tremble gripping the door handle.{w} I try to remember the feeling of moving past this uncertainty...{w} but that was back before I lost the job.{w} When things were merely hard instead of
     impossible.{w} Before even repetitive, brainless tasks while staring at the screen weren't somehow too much."
+
     nvlnarrator "I wonder if thinking any of this is even worthwhile.{w} Did berating myself ever get anything done?{w} I guess it just feels like what I deserve...{w} A proper response to the inaction my body
     offers."
+
     nvlnarrator "...{w} I sure am lucky to have something else to share the blame with.{w} Huh?{w} No, that's obviously wrong, isn't it?{w} I'm not lucky to have her at all."
+
     nvl hide Dissolve(0.2)
 
     show null boast pout with dissolve
+
     null "You've been sitting there about to open the door for a while now."
+    
     null "What's the matter?"
+
     show null boast creep at bouncetransition
+
     extend " Can't even do something as simple as swinging a door open?"
+
     show null boast thinking at bouncetransition
+
     null "That's funny..."
+
     show null boast smug at bouncetransition
+
     extend " Isn't this the kinda thing other people do without thinking?"
+
     show null boast creep at bouncetransition 
+
     null "You couldn't possibly be that useless, right?"
+
     null "You're just tricking me, riiiight?!"
+
     show null boast closed at bouncetransition
+
     null "Real funny, Irida...{w} But there's a limit to how useless someone can believably be, y'know?"
+
     show null boast smugopen at bouncetransition
+
     null "Even someone like you..."
+
     show null boast creep at bouncetransition
+
     null "Ehehehehe!!"
+
     irida "..."
+
     advnarrator "Spite takes over,"
+
     # door opening sfx lol
+    
     extend " and I swing the door open without thinking."
+
     advnarrator "I look back at Null."
+
     show null boast smug with dissolve
+
     advnarrator "The look she returns to me seems smugly self-satisfied..."
+
     advnarrator "..."
+
     hide null boast with dissolve
+
     advnarrator "You're so annoying."
 
 label act2:
@@ -513,10 +783,12 @@ label act2:
     scene street with Fade(0, 1, 1.5)
 
     nvl show Dissolve(0.5)
+
     nvlnarrator "It's the middle of the day.{w} All kinds of people from different kinds of lives all rush, passing by one another,{w} some chatting, some just hurried..."
     nvlnarrator "It's a powerful kind of noise, capable of swallowing me whole and never letting go.{w} I have to strain not to get lost in it."
     nvlnarrator "At some point the route to my old place of work had become extremely familiar, in a way not a lot of other things ever get to be.{w} There's something sad about that, maybe..."
     nvlnarrator "Nevertheless, every turn had become ingrained in my mind."
+
     nvl hide Dissolve(0.2)
 
     show null boast pout at left with dissolve
@@ -1070,60 +1342,6 @@ label finale:
     advnarrator "Her chest heaves up and down, a noticeable effort just to pull enough air."
     advnarrator "She's been staring right at me every moment she can."
     advnarrator "Though it's a bit creepy, it only makes the moments where I cause her enough pain to make her eyes waver more satisfying."
-    advnarrator "Yeah...{w} When she's looking at me all defiant, but as soon as I do something she can't help but wince..."
-    irida "...... I need more..."
-    advnarrator "A creepy voice I didn't know I could speak in, muttered under my breath."
-    null "Creep..."
-    advnarrator "It's no use anymore."
-    advnarrator "You can say all you like."
-    advnarrator "It all falls apart now.{w} Just looking at you makes the truth self-evident..."
-    advnarrator "You are hopelessly, utterly, disgustingly below me."
-    null "Aha......"
-    advnarrator "I take hold of one of her tentacles."
-    scene cg_pinned_4 with Dissolve(0.2)
-    advnarrator "That got your attention, huh?"
-    null "What are youー"
-    advnarrator "Quickly, I wrap it around her neck.{w} I don't even give her the time to complain."
-    null "Huh..."
-    advnarrator "I start squeezing.{w} Her hands come up, pulling at my wrists."
-    advnarrator "She's already reached the point where she can't put up a fight a long time ago, though."
-    advnarrator "Your puny attempt won't do anything, NULL."
-    advnarrator "I'll keep it tight around your neck until you're nearly gone.{w} Or maybe I'll keep going?"
-    scene cg_pinned_5 with Dissolve(1.5)
-    advnarrator "Soon enough, she can't even keep her hands on my wrists.{w} Her hands fall, resting on my arms unceremoniously."
-    advnarrator "What a beautiful sign of defeat you've given me..."
-    advnarrator "This side of you is so intoxicating.{w} The NULL that has no choice but to give up."
-    advnarrator "I'll kill you, okay?"
-    advnarrator "What a shame to do it when you can't even look at me..."
-    advnarrator "You're choking for air too hard to even look my way, but I'll still kill you."
-    advnarrator "......"
-    advnarrator "Kidding."
-    advnarrator "She starts sputtering as soon as I let go, her own hands wrapped around her neck."
-    advnarrator "....Hm?"
-    advnarrator "You're crying?{w} That's new."
-    scene cg_pinned_6 with Dissolve(0.4)
-    advnarrator "NULL looks at me,{w} well,{w} vaguely in my direction anyway.{w} I figure that's the best she can do."
-    advnarrator "Tears are streaming down."
-    null "Hh..."
-    advnarrator "She coughs, then focuses, trying to regain her breath."
-    advnarrator "Still, you have something to say?"
-    null "Did...{w} Did that feel...{w} good?"
-    irida "...?!"
-    null "Make you feel better?"
-    irida "What are you saying to me now?"
-    null "...{w} It's all I wanted."
-    null "I wanted to be what you wanted of me."
-    null "And...{w} you made it clear from the start."
-    null "You saw a monster in me, right?"
-    null "You wanted something that could shoulder the ugliness in your heart."
-    null "Did it bring you...{w} relief?"
-    null "To beat that ugliness to submission?"
-    advnarrator "Ahaha..."
-    advnarrator "Even now, you manage to stop me in my tracks."
-    advnarrator "......{w} I swallow."
-    irida "NULL...{w} Just.{w} Just..."
-    scene black with Fade(1.0, 0.5, 0)
-    irida "Just stop already."
 
 label epilogue:
     advnarrator "AAAAAAAAA"